Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226410447 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sixty years later, church rhetoric has undergone a radical shift, as silence has given way to frequent, public, detailed discussion of homosexuality and its perceived dangers. Add the specter of homosexuality to the mix, and you’ve got a situation ripe for worry, sermonizing, and exploitation.In Recruiting Young Love, Mark D. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging, they are beset by temptation on all sides—from the pressure of their peers to the nihilism and materialism of popular culture. At the time of the first Kinsey Report, in 1948, homosexuality was simultaneously condemned and little discussed—a teen struggling with same-sex desire would have found little specific guidance. Jordan explores more than a half century of American church debate about homosexuality to show that even as the main lesson—homosexuality is bad, teens are vulnerable—has remained constant, the arguments and assumptions have changed remarkably. Along the way, churches have quietly adopted much of the language and ideas of modern sexology, psychiatry, and social reformers—deploying it, for example, to buttress the credentials of anti-gay “deprogramming&rdq
A succinct, yet thorough analysis of 20th century rhetoric about homosexuality Underoo23 The title may seem a tendentious or scandalous, and after reading the book I find that the title does not necessarily reflect the book entirely accurately; the subtitle "How Christians Talk About Homosexuality" gets to the heart of the matter. Dr. Jordan's t
"A professor of divinity writing about the key terms in the American Christian controversy over male homosexuality would seem to promise dull reading. But by steering clear of all jargon except the terms he focuses on—terms used in public, not academic, debate—and by critiquing many important pamphlets and books about homosexuality, Jordan produces an absorbing book. Dense with information, bristling with provocative perspectives, Jordan's effort is a vital supplement to the political and social histories of the long struggle for gay rights."